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John Pilling

John Pilling has written for PN Review for more than twenty-five years. He is best known for his work on Beckett, and for 50 Modern European Poets (Heinemann, 1984).

John Pilling's work featured in PN Review comprises two reports, 28 articles, and 109 reviews, over a period of 31 years. Also available are three reviews of John Pilling's work and one interview with John Pilling.
Further Reading
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 15 (1980) on Jaroslav Seifert, James Wright and Cesar Vallejo
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 17 (1981) on Avril Pyman's 'Life' of Aleksandr Blok
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 18 (1981) on Michael Riffaterre's 'Semiotics of Poetry'
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 20 (1981) on 'Three Russian Poets' and 'Femmes/Hombres'
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 20 (1981) on Anthony Hecht's 'The Venetian Vespers'
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 30 (1983) on critical works by Ronald Hingley and Theo Hermans
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 32 (1983) on D. M. Thomas's Pushkin
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 32 (1983) on Yehuda Amichai and Tadeusz Rozewicz
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 33 (1983) on Robert Walser
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 34 (1983) on the Poetry of Modern Russia (collections)
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 34 (1983) on André Breton
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 34 (1983) Note on books about Alexander Blok and George Seferis
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 37 (1984) on Jean-Claude Renard
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 38 (1984) on Li He
Review in PN Review 40 (1984) on Anna Akhmatova
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 41 (1985) Edith Södergran
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 42 (1985) on Ion Caraion and Marin Sorescu
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 42 (1985) on Boris Pasternak and Heinz Winfried Sabais
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 44 (1985) on Mallarmé Tomb for Anatole
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 45 (1985) on Jonathan Galassi's Montale
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 50 (1986) on Yves Bonnefoy
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 51 (1986) on modern Spanish poetry
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 52 (1986) on Eugenio de Andrade
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 53 (1987) on Emmanuel Bove
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 53 (1987) on Montale
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 53 (1987) on Whigham's Martial
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 53 (1987) on Claus, Dinescu and Levchev
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 54 (1987) on Poetry in a Divided World
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 54 (1987) on Jaroslav Seifert
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 55 (1987) on Romania poetry
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 55 (1987) on Pessoa
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 55 (1987) on Rolf Jacobsen
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 57 (1987) on Peter Huchel
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 58 (1987) on Miguel Hernández
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 59 (1988) on Fernando Pessoa
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 60 (1988) on Kjell Espmark and Adam Zagajewski
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 61 (1988) on Marina Tsvetayeva
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 62 (1988) on Hugo Claus
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 64 (1988) on Modern Polish Poetry
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 67 (1989) on Swedish Poetry
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 67 (1989) on Nicolas Bouvier
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 68 (1989) on Zbigniew Herbert
Review in PN Review 72 (1990) on Anna Akhmatova
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 73 (1990) on Ivan V. Lalić
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 73 (1990) on Michael Hamburger
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 74 (1990) on Celan and Black Letters Unleashed
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 74 (1990) on Miroslav Holub
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 74 (1990) on Salvador Espriu
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 76 (1990) on Daniil Kharms, Elisabeth Borchers, and Finland Swedish Poetry
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 76 (1990) on Ivan Davidkov and Yannis Ritsos
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 77 (1991) on Friedrich Hölderlin
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 77 (1991) on Mallarmé
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 77 (1991) on Vittorio Sereni
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 79 (1991) On East European, Finnish and Bulgarian Poetry, Tua Forsström, Bella Akhmadulina
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 79 (1991) on Michael Leiris
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 79 (1991) on Richard Stamelman
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 80 (1991) on Cyprian Norwid
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 80 (1991) on Yves Bonnefoy
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 80 (1991) on Federico Garcia Lorca and Eugenio Montale
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 81 (1991) on Pablo Neruda and Edith Södergran
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 81 (1991) on Primo Levi
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 82 (1991) on Osip Mandelstam
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 83 (1992) on Paavo Haavikko
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 83 (1992) on Jean Tardieu
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Writing of or about Primo Levi
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on George Heym, Odysseus Elytis, Takis Varvitsiotis
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Osip Mandelstam, Rutger Kopland, Rabindranath Tagore
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Paul Celan
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Louis Aragon
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Elias Canetti
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on George Seferis
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Edouard Dujardin
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 84 (1992) on Piotr Sommer and György Petri
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 86 (1992) on Primo Levi, Claud Vigée and T.S. Eliot in French
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 86 (1992) on The Poetry of Survival and Poetry of the Canary Islands
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 87 (1992) on Memoir of Italo Svevo
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 89 (1993) on Modern Poetry in Translation
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on Novalis
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on Osip Mandelstam and Fernando Pessoa
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets Series, Jaques Dupin, Maryann De Julio and Jean Cocteau
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 90 (1993) on the Faber Book of Modern European Poetry
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Franz Baerman Steiner
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Aleksandr Kushner and Miroslav Holub
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Franco Fortini
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Gerrit Achterberg and H.C. ten Berge
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 91 (1993) on Susan Amert's later poetry of Anna Akhmatova
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 92 (1993) on Samuel Beckett
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 92 (1993) on Federico García Lorca and Constantine Cavafy
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 92 (1993) on Ivo Andric; and Marina Tsvetaeva
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 92 (1993) on Anna Akmatova and Tsvetaeva
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 93 (1993) Gösta Ågren and Bo Carpelan and on Antonio Machado
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 94 (1993) on French Poets
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 97 (1994) on Henrik Ibsen, Kjell Espmark, Ottó Orbán and Michael Krüger
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 97 (1994) on Anthony Barnett and Andrea Zanzotto
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 98 (1994) on Attilio Bertolucci, Federico Mayor, Elisaveta Bagryana and Elena Shvarts
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 101 (1995) on Akhmotova, Tranströmer, Anna Kamienska, Hans Faverey, Heinz Piontek, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Jean-Jacques Celly
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 103 (1995) on Giacomo Leopardi and Pablo Neruda
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 106 (1995) on Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, Boye, Ra'hel
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 108 (1996) on Pessoa, Milosz, Césaire, Jaccottet, Gaspar, Ponge
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 109 (1996) on John Ashbery, Yves Bonnefoy and Osip Mandelstam
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 114 (1997) on Russian Literary History and Camões' legacy
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 115 (1997) on French, Hungarian and Israeli poetry
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 117 (1997) on Rimbaud
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 128 (1999) on Rilke, Modersohn-Becker and Paul Celan
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 145 (2002) on Marin Sorescu
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 160 (2004) on Jean Cassou, Jacques Prévert and Olav H. Hauge
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 163 (2005) on Mallarmé
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 184 (2008) on C.P. Cavafy
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 185 (2009) on 'Alberto Caeiro'
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